What we do

The UK Statistics Authority is an independent body at arm’s length from government. We have a statutory objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that ‘serve the public good’. The public good includes:

informing the public about social and environmental matters

assisting in the development and evaluation of public policy

regulating quality and publicly challenging the misuse of statistics

The collective mission of the official statistics system is: to mobilise the power of data to help Britain make better decisions.

Making public statements about the use of statistics is an important part of our work. For further detail on our role in making public interventions, and the factors that we consider in making these interventions, you can download our interventions policy.